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The status and future of essential geodiversity variables (2024)
Journal Article
Schrodt, F., Vernham, G., Bailey, J., Field, R., Gordon, J. E., Gray, M., …Kissling, W. D. (2024). The status and future of essential geodiversity variables. Philosophical Transactions A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 382(2269), Article 20230052. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2023.0052

Rapid environmental change, natural resource overconsumption and increasing concerns about ecological sustainability have led to the development of 'Essential Variables' (EVs). EVs are harmonized data products to inform policy and to enable effective... Read More about The status and future of essential geodiversity variables.

Urbanization without guarantees: articulation, rentier capitalism and occupancy on the agrarian urban frontier (2024)
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Cowan, T. (2024). Urbanization without guarantees: articulation, rentier capitalism and occupancy on the agrarian urban frontier. Urban Geography, https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2024.2308399

This article engages with the work of Stuart Hall to examine conditions of agrarian city-making on India’s urban frontier. The article draws on Hall’s writings on articulation and marxist method to propose an approach to studying the urban frontier “... Read More about Urbanization without guarantees: articulation, rentier capitalism and occupancy on the agrarian urban frontier.

Review of the globally invasive freshwater mussels in the genus Sinanodonta Modell, 1945 (2024)
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Douda, K., Zieritz, A., Vodáková, B., Urbańska, M., Bolotov, I. N., Marková, J., …Lopes-Lima, M. (2024). Review of the globally invasive freshwater mussels in the genus Sinanodonta Modell, 1945. Hydrobiologia, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-023-05457-3

In this review, we synthesize the current knowledge of the biology, ecology, and impact of Sinanodonta freshwater mussels (Bivalvia, Unionidae), native to East Asia, that have successfully invaded Europe, Central America, North Africa, and several As... Read More about Review of the globally invasive freshwater mussels in the genus Sinanodonta Modell, 1945.

Who were the Early Globalisers? The Historical Geographies of India in Interwar London (2024)
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Legg, S. (2024). Who were the Early Globalisers? The Historical Geographies of India in Interwar London. Geography Review Magazine, 37(4), 37-39

This article explores globalisation’s historical geographies, using the example of visiting Indians in 1930s London to decolonise our presumptions about who helped craft the globe.

UK flockdown: A survey of smallscale poultry keepers and their understanding of governmental guidance on highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) (2024)
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McClaughlin, E., Elliott, S., Jewitt, S., Smallman-Raynor, M., Dunham, S., Parnell, T., …Tarlinton, R. (2024). UK flockdown: A survey of smallscale poultry keepers and their understanding of governmental guidance on highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI). Preventive Veterinary Medicine, 224, Article 106117. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.prevetmed.2024.106117

The scale of the current outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) due to the A/H5N1 virus in the United Kingdom is unprecedented. In addition to its economic impact on the commercial poultry sector, the disease has devastated wild bird co... Read More about UK flockdown: A survey of smallscale poultry keepers and their understanding of governmental guidance on highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI).

Global dominance of lianas over trees is driven by forest disturbance, climate and topography (2024)
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Ngute, A. S. K., Schoeman, D. S., Pfeifer, M., van der Heijden, G. M. F., Phillips, O. L., van Breugel, M., …Marshall, A. R. (2024). Global dominance of lianas over trees is driven by forest disturbance, climate and topography. Global Change Biology, 30(1), Article e17140. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.17140

Growing evidence suggests that liana competition with trees is threatening the global carbon sink by slowing the recovery of forests following disturbance. A recent theory based on local and regional evidence further proposes that the competitive suc... Read More about Global dominance of lianas over trees is driven by forest disturbance, climate and topography.

Veterinarians' knowledge and experience of avian influenza and perspectives on control measures in the United Kingdom (2024)
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Jewitt, S., Mcclaughlin, E., Elliott, S., Smallman-Raynor, M., Clark, M., Dunham, S., & Tarlinton, R. (2024). Veterinarians' knowledge and experience of avian influenza and perspectives on control measures in the United Kingdom. Veterinary Record, 195(5), Article e3713. https://doi.org/10.1002/vetr.3713

Background
The scale of the outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in 2021–23 due to the influenza A/H5N1 virus is unprecedented.

Methods
An online survey was designed to explore veterinarians’ experiences of and confidence in trea... Read More about Veterinarians' knowledge and experience of avian influenza and perspectives on control measures in the United Kingdom.

Veterinarians’ knowledge and experience of avian influenza and perspectives on control measures in the UK (2024)
Journal Article
Jewitt, S., McClaughlin, E., Elliott, S., Smallman-Raynor, M., Clark, M., Dunham, S., & Tarlinton, R. (2024). Veterinarians’ knowledge and experience of avian influenza and perspectives on control measures in the UK. Veterinary Record, 195(5), Article e3713. https://doi.org/10.1002/vetr.3713

Background
The scale of the outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in 2021–23 due to the influenza A/H5N1 virus is unprecedented.

Methods
An online survey was designed to explore veterinarians’ experiences of and confidence in trea... Read More about Veterinarians’ knowledge and experience of avian influenza and perspectives on control measures in the UK.

Consistent patterns of common species across tropical tree communities (2024)
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Cooper, D. L., Lewis, S. L., Sullivan, M. J., Prado, P. I., Prado, P. I., ter Steege, H., …Zent, S. (2024). Consistent patterns of common species across tropical tree communities. Nature, 625(7996), 728-734. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06820-z

Trees structure the Earth’s most biodiverse ecosystem, tropical forests. The vast number of tree species presents a formidable challenge to understanding these forests, including their response to environmental change, as very little is known about m... Read More about Consistent patterns of common species across tropical tree communities.

‘The very term mensuration sounds engineer-like’: measurement and engineering authority in nineteenth-century river management (2024)
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Dishington, R. (2024). ‘The very term mensuration sounds engineer-like’: measurement and engineering authority in nineteenth-century river management. British Journal for the History of Science, 57(1), 21-41. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0007087423000948

Measurement was vital to nineteenth-century engineering. Focusing on the work of the Stevenson engineering firm in Scotland, this paper explores the processes by which engineers made their measurements credible and explains how measurement, as both a... Read More about ‘The very term mensuration sounds engineer-like’: measurement and engineering authority in nineteenth-century river management.

Investigating the role of hydrological connectivity on the processing of organic carbon in tropical aquatic ecosystems (2024)
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Pereira, R., Panizzo, V. N., Bischoff, J., McGowan, S., Lacey, J., Moorhouse, H., …Fazry, S. (2024). Investigating the role of hydrological connectivity on the processing of organic carbon in tropical aquatic ecosystems. Frontiers in Earth Science, 11, Article 1250889. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2023.1250889

Inland waters are highways of carbon and nutrient flows between the land and ocean. Aquatic environments integrate multiple sources and processes over space and time that influence ecosystem functionality. The complexity of these systems and their mu... Read More about Investigating the role of hydrological connectivity on the processing of organic carbon in tropical aquatic ecosystems.

Scenario setup and forcing data for impact model evaluation and impact attribution within the third round of the Inter-Sectoral Model Intercomparison Project (ISIMIP3a) (2024)
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Frieler, K., Volkholz, J., Lange, S., Schewe, J., Mengel, M., del Rocío Rivas López, M., …Bechtold, M. (2024). Scenario setup and forcing data for impact model evaluation and impact attribution within the third round of the Inter-Sectoral Model Intercomparison Project (ISIMIP3a). Geoscientific Model Development, 17(1), 1-51. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-1-2024

This paper describes the rationale and the protocol of the first component of the third simulation round of the Inter-Sectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project (ISIMIP3a, http://www.isimip.org, last access: 2 November 2023) and the associated set... Read More about Scenario setup and forcing data for impact model evaluation and impact attribution within the third round of the Inter-Sectoral Model Intercomparison Project (ISIMIP3a).

Eco-coloniality and the violent environmentalism of the UK–France border (2024)
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Davies, T., Yemane, T. H., Turner, J., Mayblin, L., & Isakjee, A. (2024). Eco-coloniality and the violent environmentalism of the UK–France border. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, https://doi.org/10.1177/02637758241264415

This article examines the eco-coloniality of the UK–France border by tracing the transformation of the notorious Calais “jungle” refugee camp into a nature reserve. We empirically investigate the ecological politics of the Calais borderzone, arguing... Read More about Eco-coloniality and the violent environmentalism of the UK–France border.

The Politics of Injury: Debilitation and the Right to Maim at the EU Border (2024)
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Davies, T., Isakjee, A., & Obradovic-Wochnik, J. (2024). The Politics of Injury: Debilitation and the Right to Maim at the EU Border. Geopolitics, 1-29. https://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2024.2339894

Borders are sites of mass injury. This article questions the necro-consensus that has emerged within migration studies, and explores the political role that less-than-deadly violence plays at contemporary borders. By withholding from outright killing... Read More about The Politics of Injury: Debilitation and the Right to Maim at the EU Border.

‘Bringing order to the border’: liberal and illiberal fantasies of border control in the English channel (2024)
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Mayblin, L., Turner, J., Davies, T., Yemane, T., & Isakjee, A. (2024). ‘Bringing order to the border’: liberal and illiberal fantasies of border control in the English channel. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183x.2024.2349691

This article focuses on the advancement of fantasy policy solutions to irregular migration, drawing on the case study of the UK/French border. In 2018 people began to cross the English Channel in significant numbers to seek asylum. This led to much c... Read More about ‘Bringing order to the border’: liberal and illiberal fantasies of border control in the English channel.

Value pluralism, religious particularity, and environmental policy in pursuit of a sustainable future (2023)
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Ives, C. D. (2023). Value pluralism, religious particularity, and environmental policy in pursuit of a sustainable future. Reviews in Science, Religion and Theology, 2(4), 4-26

Science has presented a clear picture about global environmental destabilisation and the need for dramatic solutions to ensure a safe and flourishing future. Current policy approaches are grossly insufficient to reverse the decline in key indicators... Read More about Value pluralism, religious particularity, and environmental policy in pursuit of a sustainable future.

FTIR spectra from grass pollen: A quest for species-level resolution of Poaceae and Cerealia-type pollen grains (2023)
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Katsi, F., Kent, M. S., Jones, M., Fraser, W. T., Jardine, P. E., Eastwood, W., …Lomax, B. H. (2024). FTIR spectra from grass pollen: A quest for species-level resolution of Poaceae and Cerealia-type pollen grains. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 321, Article 105039. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2023.105039

Palynological analysis based on spore and pollen morphology is well established in the field of palaeo-environmental reconstruction but is currently not fully exploited for understanding the history and development of cereal cultivation due to diffic... Read More about FTIR spectra from grass pollen: A quest for species-level resolution of Poaceae and Cerealia-type pollen grains.

Understanding the functioning of urban climate finance through topologies of reach (2023)
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Grafe, F. J., Forino, G., Fraser, A., Hilbrandt, H., & Morris, J. H. (2023). Understanding the functioning of urban climate finance through topologies of reach. City, https://doi.org/10.1080/13604813.2023.2284383

Urban climate action is increasingly understood through the lens of finance: through financial agendas, interests, and practical tools which enable ‘bankable’ or profitable interventions. While the literature is rife with criticism of the normative f... Read More about Understanding the functioning of urban climate finance through topologies of reach.